Brisbane, Australia’s Blank Realm approach pop music with a love for dirty guitar sounds and a sense that their recordings were made in the most fragile of conditions. Not exactly recorded lo-fi (but perhaps mastered this way), Grassed Inn sounds like the completed album had been left on an old reel tape for years before being discovered. The sounds of guitars, harmonies, and primitive keyboards bring back ideas of the '60s relearned by that wave of '80s New Zealand groups like The Chills and The Clean, who also started their careers unable to fully finance high-end recordings. But in the end, it’s the songs here—“Back to the Flood,” “Falling Down the Stairs,” “Bulldozer Love”—that lure listeners in, and it’s the unexpected instrumental jams that lull the tunes into extended psychedelic states, where five minutes and more is the going rate for a pop song. Featuring siblings Daniel, Sarah, and Luke Spencer and Luke Walsh on guitar, Blank Realm tap into a world that’s never existed except for on magnetic tape through the decades. (To complete the picture, they should consider releasing their albums on cassette!)